Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-11-18
PARADED As MARTYRS.
THE ANARCHIST FUNERAL PAGE
INT.


sAsHEs AND RIBBONS ON THE
COBFINS.
CHICAGO, Nov. 13.-Fuily ten
thousand people followed the re.
mains OF Spies, Parsons, Fischer,
Engel and LlDgg, the dead Anarch.
lists, TO the tomb to-day. There
was no riotous behavior, and the
precautions taken by the police
would have prevented disturbance
had any been attempted. No red
banners were permitted TO be car
ried IN the procession. but the col
fms of Spies and Parsons were
draped with red sashes and ribbons
oyer the black cloth covers. Hun
dreds OF sympathizing women.
matrOns and n1idens followed the
cortege on foot, and all wore the
red emblems OfSocialism. Besides
scarfs and ribbons Of scarlet, some
wore red bonnets and red dresses,
and nearly all carried flowers.
There were heaps OF fragrant flow
ers, pure white chrysanthemums
and red and white roses to cover
the dead murderers. There An
archist and Socialist sympathizers
made martyrs Of them, and the
funeral pageant, excepting for the
rabble that brought up the rear,
would have done honor TO a prince.
In the crowding at the depot, from
which the funeral train started, 1t
looked at one time as though there
might he trouble, but he police,
with determined effort, forced back
the surging crowd. Fully ten
thousand people we're gathered in
the cemetery to see the last act in
the terrible tragedy which began in
the Haymarket riots.
There were some bitter remarks
made by the speakers at the grave
yard, and their inyectives against
the courts and the authorities
were echoed by the grOaus and
yells Of many in the great crowd.
Had those speeches been made in
the city they would have caused
trouble. IL was almost TO second
the exact time that forty eight
hours before the sca9Old drop fell
with August Spies and his com.
rades, that to day the hearse drew
up at the door Of the relatives and
the demonstration OF the day
began.
More peculiar still was the fact
that the hearse was just ready to
start at the precise moment cores.
ponding to the announcement at
the gallows that Spies had cea sed
70 breathe. Off from Milwaukee
avenue, Spies lived in little oasis
of welltO.dO Americans and Ger
mans, while the others entom bed
today had places of abode scatter.
ed at intervals OF five or six blocks
close to the same thoroughfare, but
in the midst of the most ignorant
and uncOuth classes of ChIcagO's
foreign-bOrn population.
AbOut tour thousand persons,
most of them neighbors of the
Spies, were cOngregated on the
streets and sidewalks of the block
in which Spies lived when the time
for departure arrived. AS at the
other houses where the Anarchists
bodies lay, constant stream OF
mourners or curious sjght-seers had
been since almost daylight, pouring
through the buildings and viewing
the livid remains or gazing at the
weeping relatives. When tue forty
eight hours anniversary of the
scaffold drop had come, and the
sombre hearse was standing pa.
tiently at the curb, the tall, stately
form Of Captain Black, the An
archists' chief counsel, was seen
stepping out through the thrOng at
the Spies threshold. Supported on
his arm, and with head pillowed on
his shoulders, wasa clinging girlish
figure clad in Grape from head TO
foot-a picture of utter woe. The
face was completely yelled from
sight.
Instantly the whisper was heard
on every side There she is"
"There Nina Van Iandt." "Thats
Spies wife"
1t was not till the coffin had
been placed in the hearse, the I'M.
mediate mOurners had entered
carriages, and five hundred blue
badged Turner's had formed in
ranks ahead, that the crowd dis
covered its mistake. Calmly seated
in the first carriage, without any
sign of mourning in her apparel, or
a single trace of grief in herpale set
face. was the cOuntenance unmistak.
ably of Spies youthful proxy bride,
but it had suddenly acquired a
dignity and matureness that gave
an unlocked for, but tar from re-
pellant aspect to one of her years.
Aside from this expression, the
shapely features wore a peculiar
yellowish pallor. 1t may have
been a mere fancy on the part Of
the observers, but those who saw
the face of Spies as he trOd to his
place on the gallows, say the pal.
lor on his cOuntenance then was
exactly that to-day on the face Of
Nina Van Zandt. She was aD.
parelled in "A well.worn fur-trimmed
wrap of dark wine cOlored or pur.
pie velvet, a very simply made
dress OF black silk, and a small
neat brown feathered bonnet to
match the wrap.
While the crowd were recovering
from their surprise at Miss Van
Zandt's demeanOr aud dress, the
black clad girl who had accom-
panied Captain Black into the same
carriage with Spies pseudo wife
threw back her veil, and disposed
the tear stained features OF the
dead mans sister Gretchen. Along.
side of Miss Van Zandt, and listen.
ing eagerly at times to her words
of gloriication OF Spies, was the
Anarchists aged mother. There
were hard lines in her face, but she
seemed to have command of her
grief. At this moment the mourn
full music OF a dirge away to the
front was heard, and the cortege
was on its way to thu grave. Down
oronnn onoh